Ahijah ( ''ʾĂḥīyyā'', "brother of
Yah";
Latin
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and
Douay–Rheims: Ahias) is a name of several biblical individuals:
#
Ahijah the Shilonite
Ahijah the Shilonite (; ) was a Levite prophet of Shiloh (biblical city), Shiloh in the days of Solomon, as mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's Books of Kings, First Books of Kings. Ahijah foretold to Jeroboam that he would become king ().
The Hebre ...
, the Biblical prophet who divided the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
# One of the sons of
Bela (1 Chr. 8:7,
RV). In
AV (KJV) called "Ahiah."
# One of the five sons of Jerahmeel, who was great-grandson of
Judah (1 Chr. 2:25).
# A Pelonite, one of David's heroes (1 Chr. 11:36); called also
Eliam (2 Sam. 23:34).
# A
Levite
Levites ( ; ) or Levi are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname ''Halevi'', which consists of the Hebrew definite article "" ''Ha-' ...
having charge of the sacred treasury in the temple (1 Chr. 26:20).
# One of Solomon's secretaries (1 Kings 4:3).
# Son of
Ahitub (1 Sam. 14:3, 18),
Ichabod's brother; the same probably as
Ahimelech, who was High Priest at Nob in the reign of
Saul
Saul (; , ; , ; ) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally placed in the late eleventh c ...
(1 Sam. 22:11) and at
Shiloh, where the
Tabernacle
According to the Hebrew Bible, the tabernacle (), also known as the Tent of the Congregation (, also Tent of Meeting), was the portable earthly dwelling of God used by the Israelites from the Exodus until the conquest of Canaan. Moses was instru ...
was set up. Some, however, suppose that
Ahimelech was the brother of Ahijah, and that they both officiated as high priests, Ahijah at
Gibeah
Gibeah (; ''Gīḇəʿā''; ''Gīḇəʿaṯ'') is the name of three places mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the tribes of Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin, Tribe of Judah, Judah, and Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim respectively.
Gibeah of Benjamin, als ...
or Kirjath-jearim, and Ahimelech at Nob.
# Father of King
Baasha of Israel
A man named
Ahijah Ahijah ( ''ʾĂḥīyyā'', "brother of Yahweh, Yah"; Latin and Douay–Rheims Bible, Douay–Rheims: Ahias) is a name of several biblical individuals:
# Ahijah the Shilonite, the Biblical prophet who divided the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
# One ...
also appears in the Babylonian Talmud in the 2nd century AD as one of the first
Babylonian Exilarchs.
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11th-century BCE high priests of Israel
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House of Baasha
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